Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be screened for a common heart rhythm condition at least 10 years earlier than current national guidelines recommend, say UNSW researchers. Research ...
Researchers have mapped how lung damage begins early in life for children with cystic fibrosis, providing new insights that will help reshape future care. The research team, led by Murdoch Children's ...
Unlike other residents of Mongbwalu, a town at the heart of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's latest devastating Ebola outbreak, Laureine Sakiya believes that the blood-letting virus exists ...
Making children laugh can build deep emotional connections and soothe their nervous systems, making them more resilient and open to new ideas, says a leading child development expert. Dr. Jacqueline ...
More than 900 suspected Ebola cases have been identified in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief has said. "As surveillance efforts have been scaled ...
Humans continuously adapt their actions and behaviors in response to changes in their surrounding environment. Past ...
When it comes to cancer, tumor suppressor genes are usually thought of as the "good guys." These genes make proteins that protect and repair DNA in cells. If they stop functioning or there's not ...
Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo updated the death toll from the Ebola outbreak to 204 late Saturday, hours after the Red Cross said three volunteers had died there and Uganda confirmed ...
A new article published in the neurocognitive journal Entropy argues that Sigmund Freud's model of the mind, as well as more ...
Humans have around 30 trillion cells in our adult bodies. Amazingly, each of these cells came from a handful of about 100 ...
When South African infectious disease specialist Lucille Blumberg checked her email on the morning of May 1, while the ...
Metabolic/bariatric surgery is a highly effective treatment for people living with severe obesity and/or metabolic health ...